Billet-loop



(No Mariel.)

T. G. NELSON 8; W. P. GELABERT.

BILLET LOOP.

No. 476,673, Patented June 7, 1892.

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THOMAS G. NELSON AND \VILLIAM P. GELABERT, OF SWEET SPRINGS, MISSOURI.

BlLLET-LOOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 476,673, dated June 7,1892.

Application filed February 25, 1892. Serial No. 422,781. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, THOMAS G. NELSON and WILLIAM P. GELABERT, citizensof the United States, residing at Sweet Springs, in the county of Salineand State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Double Loops for Harness- Straps; and we do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

Our invention relates toindependent double or twin loops used inconnection with independent buckles on breast, pole, hame, breeching,and other reversible harness, and its object is to simplify theconstruction of such loops.

Our invention consists in a triangular metal loop constructedindependently of the buckle of the strap on which it is used, said loopconsistin g of three transverse bars and two bifurcated side jaws, oneof said bars being forward of and intermediate or between the others, aswill be hereinafter described, and said intermediate bar being adaptedto be confined to the buckle-strap contiguous to the buckle by foldingthe said strap upon it and inserting one or two rivets, and the saidother two bars with their side jaws forming with the intermediate barupper and lower separate loops for receiving and confining thebuckle-strap underneath and 011 top or on opposite sides of the buckle.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of ourimproved double loop separated from the harness-strap. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal section of a buckle, harness-strap, and our improved twinor double metallic loop, the loop being shown confined forward of itscentral bar by a single rivet on account of being near the buckle andthe strap as only passed through the lower loop. Fig. 3 is a similarsection to Fig. 2, showing the double loop confined by two rivets, onein front and the other in rear of its central bar, because the loop isfarther off from the buckle than in Fig. 2, the strap being shown aspassed through both of the loops.

A in the drawings designates our double or twin metallic loop, which inits side elevation is approximately triangular and consists of twotriangular side jaws to a, each jaw being bifurcated or having twobranches a a diverging in opposite directions from one another, and thesaid jaws being connected by transverse bars a a 0. which incrosssection are in form of flattened ellipses, so as to be broad andthin and slightly rounded on their edges. The bar a is midway betweenand a considerable distance forward of the bars a a, as shown. Thisconstruction of the loop provides two separate loops which form passages19 b for the end of a bucklestrap B, one passage being on one side andthe other on the opposite side of the buckle O, which is attached tosaid strap, and the construction, shape, and arrangement of the barsare, such as shown, that the buckle end of the strap is allowed freedomto vibrate on the forward bar and thus permit any necessary changewithout undue friction and strain of the buckle and the portion of thestrap to which it is directly attached; also, by having the loopconstructed entirely disconnected from the buckle it can be set awayfrom the same as far as circumstances may require.

To apply and use this double or twin loop on harness-straps, the strapis first passed through the passage 1) of the double loop over the bar athrough the buckle-frame, and then under the said bar and through thepassage b, and its lapping end fastened by a rivet c, as in Fig. 2, orby two rivets c c, as in Fig. 3, accordingly as it is desired to havethe loop nearer toorfartherfromthebuckle. Theother end of the strap thussecured is passed through the passage b of the loop, through the buckle,

and through the passage 1), as indicated in I ient for the passage ofthe strap on account of its form through it forward and back. What weclaim as our invention is Aloop forharness,co1nprising two V-shaped sideframes, the arms of which are of substantially equal length and arearranged with relation to each other at less than a right angle, andhaving a flattened cross-bar at the intersection of the angles andconnecting crossbars at each pair of the outer ends of the arms :0 ofthe side frames.

In testimony whereof we hereunto affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

THOMAS G. NELSON. XVILLIAM P. GELABERT.

Witnessess O. E. WooDsoN, J. W. BERRY.

